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Writeups.org is an encyclopaedia of characters in genre fiction — comic books, video games, action movies, etc. It offers illustrated, researched profiles. These also include technical data for role-players. If you need a robust understanding of a character’s abilities, personality, history, etc. this is *the* place to be.
This is Marvel Boy (Bob Grayson) as published by Timely Comics during the early 1950s – the Golden Age version of the character. Includes a full description of his adventures and how to make them explicitly in continuity.
As of April of 2019, this profile was overhauled. It also received M&M stats which you can read for free, which sounds like a Communist plot to me.
Our contributor Ethan continues profiling old movie giant monsters.
The dinosaur-like and eponymous Gorgo is from a 1961 monster mash set in the British Isles.
For days, every media-related website has been plastered with Game of Thrones clicks-catching #content.
We don’t have anything GoT-related. So our site is starting to look like an ugly duckling, a misfit, an anomaly, a mutant sworn to defend a world that hates and fears them.
Therefore, I put a Game of Thrones picture on the homepage. This is purely in order to look normal. There’s no article.
One of the young superhuman activists from DC Comics and Gail Simone’s The Movement series.
Telekinesis, positive thinking, and the power of fruit snacks.
A minor Batgirl enemy during the Burnside era. Class-15-or-so bruiser.
This article presents the post-apocalyptic world, and the determined heroine, from the adventure game Shardlight.
We do have a fair bit of post-apoc stuff on this site, yeah.
An article presenting the basics and places of Eternia, the world in the 1980s Masters of the Universe cartoon series.
This “base camp” article is where our contributor Ethan’s big series about He-Man and She-Ra stuff starts. Oh boy !
A FBI metahumans specialist seen in Grant Morrison’s Seven Soldiers. High-level rapid deduction heuristics.
As of April of 2019, this profile was overhauled, and received pierced M&M stats.
Two animé cosplayers turned dangerous mercenaries, with swords and super-bikes to stay in character.
These were seen during the Batgirl of Burnside era.
The heroine of notable 1990s indie comic Wandering Star, a sci-fi/war/coming of age story.
This enigmatic character appears in a 2018 indie video game called The Other Half.
Giving him a small, short writeup seemed useful and interesting.
A scary, weird expert in a comic book version of biofeedback. Superhuman violence monster, but he’s on the Frequency so he’s okay.
This is the last of our Warren Ellis et al’s Global Frequency character profiles, as we’ve covered every writeup-able bit. It was a cool ride.
A vampire commando who hunts vampires, in the Russian Resurgence future depicted in Nikolai Dante comics published in 2000AD.
She’s so vein, she prolly thinks this writeup is about her.
As of March of 2019, this profile has had its ichor reinvigorated, and received befanged M&M stats.
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See within for ’em details.
From the early 2010s Gail Simone series The Movement, in the DC Universe.
Renegade ex-cop with an attitude, a sword, wings and two angry fists.
A selection of weapons — ranged and melee — from the Warframe video game.
New weapons and pictures get added as I play. Addition since the original release :
– Twin Gremlins machine pistols.
– Boar assault shotgun.
– Fixed missing illustrations, added some.
– Orthos poleaxe.
– Miter launcher.
– Vectis precision rifle.
– Kohm shotgun.
A burned out Japanese agent of the Global Frequency, and infiltration expert.
A Cajun mercenary veteran turned private detective. From the excellent Cinder & Ashe DC Comics limited series.
As of March of 2019, this profile was overhauled and received M&M game stats. So, even if only in this respect, les zaricos sont salés.
Big, mutated super-warrior and agent. He was the, well, enforcer for Golobulus of Cobra-La in the 1987 animated G.I. Joe movie.
The second part of our series of character profiles for Marvel Comics’ Dr. Barbara “Bobbi” Morse, aka Huntress and Mockingbird.
This covers an interim area where she has acquired heroic-level martial and athletic skills. She appears as a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, then as maverick counter-intelligence operative the Huntress, then debuts her Mockingbird identity.
A professional bodyguard and sharpshooter with a more-than-shady past. But it’s okay, now she’s on the Frequency.
From Warren Ellis’ excellent Global Frequency comics series.
The King Of The Cats (or Cat King) only appeared in one 1952 story, as Catwoman’s brother. He buckled swash.
That dropped out of continuity decades ago, but it was fun.
Sharp and classy private detective in 1980s New Orleans. Works as the partner to ex-mercenary Ashe. From an excellent DC Comics miniseries.
As of March of 2019, this entry has been improved and received M&M stats that wear a raspberry beret. The kind you find in a second-hand store.
Another short-ish entry for a character from the 1987 G.I. Joe: the movie animated feature.
Golobulus was the big bad, and the ruler of the ancient Cobra-La empire.
An obscure enemy of the early X-Men, then of Ka-Zar and Mockingbird, back in the days.
He was never quite developed but he has ties to Latin American mobs, the Mayan gods, the Savage Land, oil cartels and other uncommon story elements. So there’s potential here.
Another game setting primer, this time for Warframe’s baroque sci-fi world.
A far future, almost post-apocalyptic version of the solar system with machinegun-toting technogolem space ninja.
A 1950s gangster with a gimmick. He’s obscure, but he was in an important Catwoman story.
An older porn photographer who is also a 1980s guns-toting urban wasteland vigilante caught in an odd situation. You know.
As of February of 2019, this profile got its texts, illustrations and stats polished. It also received photogenic M&M stats.
A traditional — and remarkably dangerous — enemy of the Black Panther. This profile is filled with stuff about Wakandan history and politics, as M’Baku is a much much more interesting character than most people think. Only a fool underestimates the White Gorilla !
This is the second half of our Man-Ape (M’Baku) character profile, with a link to the first half.
As of February of 2019 this profile was overhauled. It was also cleft, since the explanations about all the Wakanda stuff made it a bit long.